The Kicker

MSNBC’s Keith Olberman on The View yesterday: JOY BEHAR: I was reading somewhere that you don’t vote… OLBERMANN: I don’t vote. It’s the only thing I can do that even suggests that I don’t have a horse in the race… Since everything else I do suggests otherwise… Olbermann called it “a symbolic gesture” and seemed […]

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If your post-election life has a campaign shaped hole, there are at least two retrospectives that could plug the gap. Newsweek’s seven part Making of the President-like novelization of the race is long, but full of interesting nuggets—for instance: Biden had no idea who Palin was before she was picked. And CBS’s 60 Minutes sat […]

While this front-page New York Times piece (“Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda In Many Countries”) is understandably getting the pick-up on morning news shows, don’t over look Times photographer Tyler Hicks images of life at Combat Outpost Lowell near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where American soldiers find themselves “a frequent target of attacks.” Powerful […]

CJR staff, tongue partially in cheek, will be live-blogging Obama’s first press conference as President-Elect. Feel free to join us in the Comments section. (Click on the headline to read all comments.)

We may soon learn what Sarah Palin thinks about Alaska’s chilly weather! Drudge is reporting that Greta Van Susteren–she of the hard-hitting “First Dude” interview (sample questions: How cold does it get up there on the North Slope? How cold is cold? How do you stay warm? So when it’s blowing like crazy, you’re not […]

Oprah, apparently, has one more Favorite Thing to add to her list: the Chicago Sun-Times. On Wednesday, the uber-host walked onstage for a filming of her talk show holding the tabloid–its cover art an iconic, black-and-white photo of Obama, with the title “Mr. President”–on display for her audience. And, yesterday, Oprah informed guest Will Smith […]